On 5AA Australia’s Across The Ditch bulletin this week Selwyn Manning and Peter Godfrey discuss how the National-led Government looks likely to lose a key piece of legislation that paints it a failure. We talk RMA reform + Labour’s leadership primary.

The leader of New Zealand’s Labour Party resigned last Thursday, sparking a leadership campaign. The three main candidates are: David Cunliffe, Grant Robertson, and Shane Jones. Among these three men is possibly New Zealand’s next prime minister.

David Cunliffe, Grant Robertson, and Shane Jones know their stuff… But only one can truly unite Labour and reconnect it to the provinces, the cities, and the people. And only one has demonstrated the leadership necessary to beat National in 2014.

In this week’s Across The Ditch bulletin Selwyn Manning and Peter Godfrey discuss how the National-led Government have managed to pass controversial electronic spy legislation into law, by only a slim majority of two votes.

Q&A With Paul Buchanan, Seeby Woodhouse & Thomas Beagle: ONE MAJOR BUT OVERLOOKED CONSEQUENCE of the Government’s GCSB legislation is what impact it will have on New Zealand’s relationship with our second largest trading partner – the People’s Republic of China.

Audio: On this week’s Across The Ditch bulletin Selwyn Manning and Peter Godfrey discuss how Fonterra, New Zealand’s largest agriculture dairy product exporter, has become the focus of an international recall of bulk whey mild powder exports and baby formula milk products.

BEHIND THE SHROUD: Tonight for the first time on NZ TV the public will be told why and how the SIS got the Ahmed Zaoui case so wrong. What can we learn from those mistakes? Should the SIS, GCSB and our intelligence aparatus undergo significant reform? This documentary explains what the Government refused to reveal. FaceTV & Sky channel 83 @ 8pm.

On this week’s Across The Ditch bulletin Selwyn Manning and Peter Godfrey discuss how the New Zealand Prime Minister’s investigator sought and obtained the meta-data of a political journalist’s communications including email and all telephone call records spanning from February to May 2013.

UPDATE: Since this article was written the head of Parliamentary Services, Geoff Thorn has resigned, receiving three month’s pay as a golden handshake. The Speaker said in a statement: “… both he (Thorn) and I acknowledge that the confidence in Parliamentary Service has been undermined by events in recent weeks, and as general manager he accepts responsibility for this.”

The public was never told why the Government changed its tune, it was never informed on why Zaoui was finally considered to be no threat, and neither the Government (nor the SIS) fronted to explain exactly why the SIS got this case wrong. This documentary explains what the Government refused to reveal.

On this edition of RadioLive’s Sunday Panel Wallace Chapman, Selwyn Manning and Rodney Hide discuss: Party pills; David Shearer’s leadership; Christchurch Council CEO inquiry; some of the flaws in the GCSB legislation; and new evidence in the David Bain case.

The true test of whether a policy is right or wrong is to turn it on its head. For example, would it be right to exclude women from selection? Would it be right to exclude candidates on the basis of ethnicity, race, religion, sexual orientation? No, of course not. Just as it is wrong for any entity to exclude people from employment or opportunity based on their gender.

In this week’s Across The Ditch bulletin Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey discuss how the NZ Prime Minister has been challenged face to face by a host of people opposed to his preferred extension of spying powers – including a fiery exchange between Key and Kim Dotcom.